Juli Gudehus is the initiator and motor of the tuqtuli project.
Juli Gudehus is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. Comparing apples and oranges is her daily bread. Juli Gudehus sees and establishes connections between phenomenons, people, and things. She has worked with and on signs since 1992. Language and everyday culture are rich sources for her multifaceted work that has been shown and published internationally.
Juli Gudehus first gained recognition for her innovative translation of Genesis into a rich collection of existing icons. Her witty and thought-provoking combination of contemporary hieroglyphs like logos, traffic signs and pictograms turned the project into a classic of visual communication. The unprecedented bottom-up approach of her tuqtuli project makes her a pioneer in the field of pictographic communication.
After training and working as a publishing bookseller at the art book publisher Wienand Köln, Germany, Juli Gudehus studied visual communication at the FH Düsseldorf, Germany, graduating with a diploma.
She gives and gave lectures at conferences and universities, nationally and internationally, she gives workshops and seminars and teaches at numerous universities, including as a guest professor for integrated design and design methodology in the international master’s program at the University of Applied Sciences Saxony-Anhalt in Dessau, Germany.
Publications and contributions by her have appeared at renowned publishing housese like Birkhäuser, Carlsen, Die ZEIT, Lars Müller Publishers, Laurence King, niggli, Suhrkamp, Verlag Hermann Schmidt. Reviews and reports on her work, interviews and portraits wer featured in national and international magazines, newspapers, television and radio programmes like AD, ARD, art, arte, Deutsche Welle, FAZ, form, GQ, Items, NZZ, ORF, Playboy, Reuters, SZ, WDR, ZDF, ZEIT.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, e.g. here: Centraal Museum Utrecht (Netherlands), Centre des livres d’artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (France), Doshisha joshi daigaku, Kyoto (Japan), Experimenta Design Biennale Lissabon (Portugal), Flower power Festival München (Germany), Gutenberg-Museum Mainz (Germany), Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Germany), Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig (Germany), Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland), Museum angewandte Kunst Frankfurt (Germany), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Germany), Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg (Germany), Museum voor Communicatie Den Haag (Netherlands), The Eisner American Museum of Advertising & Design Milwaukee (USA).
Juli Gudehus is member of the SARN Swiss Artistic Research Network, the dgtf German Society for Design Theory and Research, the Society of Signs and The Symbol Group, and is signatory of The Jena Declaration.
